Hard to think of a more calamitous combination.https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/9/10/20847401/sunrise-movement-climate-change-activist-millennials-global-warming …
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... Ignorant, over-emotional, and empowered.
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Replying to @Outsideness
i mean, the science on climate change is indisputable, their over-emotional bc unlike you (and me, to fair...can one be a left pessimist?) they don't want the world to end, and they're empowered because...helicopter parents
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Replying to @theminorarcana
When you're implicitly saying "The science indisputably tells us the world is about to end!" you've left the road.
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Replying to @Outsideness
how so? i'm not being snarky. i'm attempting to understand the metaphor.
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Replying to @theminorarcana
The rough scientific consensus is that the world is going to get a little warmer (and greener) over the next century. The rest is whipped-up hysteria.
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Replying to @Outsideness
It will certainly have deleterious effects for human life, I guess was my point. Rise in sea level, more intense storms, increased wild fires, droughts, and disease. That's all part and parcel with "a little warmer." & that's assuming methane beneath permafrost doesn't leak
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It's certainly a vastly less serious problem than planetary dysgenic collapse.
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could inaction in the face of a clearly defined scientific problem, indeed, refusing despite the opinion of experts to intervene through technology and commerce to deal with a climate problem not be an indicator of precisely the sort of dysgenic collapse you augur?
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... Since the left is doing what it can to usher in a global population incapable -- per your hypothesis -- of responding to the apocalyptic climate panic religion they want to propagate.
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Replying to @Outsideness
While I admit the left has made something of a reverse cargo cult out of environmentalism, I'm less interested in their hysterics than in the science. Indeed, if the left spent more time on the science and economics than the humanism, they'd be better of
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The science consists of multiple hypotheses and simplified models, engaging extremely noisy data, which are converted into dogmatic screeds when adapted to a format for mass consumption.
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